For the reliable communication network design (RCND) problem links areunreliable and for each link several options are … available with dierent reliabilitiesand costs. The goal is to nd a cost-minimal communicationnetwork design that satises a pre …

creativity in general and in design in particular. Much less is known about the role of creativity in industrial economies. This … paper analyses the role of design in the economic and social development of China’s political and cultural capital Beijing …. We will try to identify the main success factors and barriers for the design business and show how design can be further …

policies discussed by the recent patent-design literature can influence R&D in the endogenous-growth framework, where the role … of the patent-design literature. In a general-equilibrium model, both incentives to innovate and monopoly distortions …